Historical Photos Thread
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Streakerfreak
Jan-Kee
Some really great choices everyone.
I know this image very well from my college years.
Here are three images that have always intrigued me. I can't find the other two images that have always fascinated me.
IH8RDS said:1. The First Photograph [France, 1826]
I know this image very well from my college years.
Here are three images that have always intrigued me. I can't find the other two images that have always fascinated me.
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Lost Canadian
Expedition Leader
Who could forget this classic.
shahram
Adventurer
This is my grandfather, Don, age fifteen, on his brother Bobby's scooter, Sunland, CA, circa 1944. Bobby, a devout Jehovah's Witness, was a conscientious objector during the war, and had been remanded by a judge to a work camp. He refused to go, and so the judge sent him to San Quentin for the duration of the war. His older brother John was fighting in Europe. John passed away three weeks ago.
This is my maternal great grandmother, in her last year of high school. She became a wardrobe and set designer on lots of movie and television productions before her death in the late '60s. She was also an avid photographer, as was my great grandfather, who was best boy/grip at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City. Together, they amassed a few large boxes of candid set photos picturing lots of big (and little) names in film, and later TV. I've been converting them to digital and repairing the images as best I can.
This is a shot of Clint Eastwood and Sheb Wooley eating lunch on the set of Rawhide.
A lot of the photos are sort of spur of the moment shots, not posed. Lots of them are overexposed, or blurry, but I think what she was trying to convey was a sense of her daily life. Some of the photos are of random, every day objects, other crew members, executives, office workers, etc. There are pictures of company picnics, wild parties, location scouting expeditions, and some of actors goofing off. Lots and lots of Hal Roach-era stuff, with Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd, Charley Chase...most of the time, you spend a minute looking at the pictures saying "Who the hell is this guy?"
This is my maternal great grandmother, in her last year of high school. She became a wardrobe and set designer on lots of movie and television productions before her death in the late '60s. She was also an avid photographer, as was my great grandfather, who was best boy/grip at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City. Together, they amassed a few large boxes of candid set photos picturing lots of big (and little) names in film, and later TV. I've been converting them to digital and repairing the images as best I can.
This is a shot of Clint Eastwood and Sheb Wooley eating lunch on the set of Rawhide.
A lot of the photos are sort of spur of the moment shots, not posed. Lots of them are overexposed, or blurry, but I think what she was trying to convey was a sense of her daily life. Some of the photos are of random, every day objects, other crew members, executives, office workers, etc. There are pictures of company picnics, wild parties, location scouting expeditions, and some of actors goofing off. Lots and lots of Hal Roach-era stuff, with Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd, Charley Chase...most of the time, you spend a minute looking at the pictures saying "Who the hell is this guy?"